Principality of Mechanical Violence

by SOULMASS

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raudurhekla AOTY contender. This is the death metal I crave: it's fast as fuck, but when it slows down and gets moodier, somehow it gets even heavier, Mobile Suit Barbatos crushing your skull with a sword. Favorite track: Stardust.

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1.	Jet Stream Attack 03:57	lyrics
Mobile assault arms race New soldiers take the stage Glory they seek And you shall find A certain death in the wake Where stars align It has begun No turning back A lethal force moving as one Jet stream attack Veterans of waging war Unlike any before Even as comets rise Their story never dies If one should fall Then so will all Facing defeat They won't retreat Tragic warriors of space Three paths to hell you'll face
2.	Cold-Blooded Calculation 02:54	lyrics
I must not falter I must not let emotion in We are the future We will not let the lesser live I stand behind the royal line Release the bugs to cull all they find Without regret Rebuild upon the corpses of mankind Let us forget I will expunge all weakness Behind this mask Iron resolve to see through This final task Beauty in my flower of death
3.	Living Dead Division 04:26	lyrics
A flash of light among stars The static discharge Gathers new recruits To this godless place Science is taken too far You'll know that we are Only being used To embrace carnage We are the dead But on we fight Pushed far beyond What's wrong or right Take another limb What use are arms if we cannot claim this victory Take another limb What use are legs if we must live with this defeat Robotic death will return For retribution we yearn Our fallen comrades Beget the monsters we create We are what we were built to hate
4.	Stardust 04:13	lyrics
I am a survivor of the old war Long have I awaited for an encore The others, misguided, will feel my wrath Solomon's dark secret has come back You won't escape The tide of fate Reviving the remnants in our network To steal the worst weapon from planet Earth Their latest and greatest can't hold me down All efforts to stop us will run aground They wait unaware of the nightmare Prepare to die in a flash of light For our rebirth For our success Operation Stardust I have returned!
5.	Colony Drop 01:47	lyrics
Operation of massive scale Annihilation without fail Into position and trajectory Falling from orbit to the city There are no others on our side The death of millions is justified None shall defy our righteous cause You cannot stop the colony drop Mass destruction authorized Entire population pulverized In an instant vaporized Earth's infection sterilized
6.	Nothing Left 04:24	lyrics
We're abandoned On a mission from above We are pawns In this endless war game Lives mean nothing We will only Die in vain Imagine dying in zero gravity Red flowing out; floating round Globules of bloody gore Fighting for something more A purpose beyond war Tragically gone bereft Until there's nothing left
7.	Red Comet 02:59	lyrics
My family was murdered By thugs seeking to be tyrants I will have my vengeance Against all of their kin For vengeance I'll commit any sin I will have my vengeance Until they're all betrayed My vengeance is the only way
8.	Victory Is Mine 02:21	lyrics
I stand collected One against a team Simple objective Defeat the enemy Death's arrived The tanks are first to be taken, before your lives This battlefield clouded by dust has been forsaken It's where you'll be killed Know that you face A mobile suit ace It's time to leave my lady's side This is the place where I will die No hero's welcome waits for me I won't retreat
9.	At the Bottom of the Gravity Well 08:55	lyrics
We won't deny the screams of our planet Nor turn away from the promise of new frontiers We cast aside the home so few cherished To live our lives in the hope it will heal with years None will defy the cycle of violence The more we change, the more it stays the same Humanity's generations carry the blame Cursed blood debts that cannot be ignored New rifts arise and the sides are thrown to war We all return to the point where nothing has been learned Every death sets the wheel in motion “Eye for an eye,” we cry with blind devotion To a cause feeding off our suffering While those in power reap the benefits that it brings Our souls are weighed down by gravity

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Principality of Mechanical Violence showcases Soulmass at their most ferocious. A concise collection of pummeling death metal, inspired by the evils of authoritarian ideology found in the Universal Century of Mobile Suit Gundam. You cannot stop the colony drop.

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released February 2, 2024

Lux Edwards - Vocals, Lyrics
Brett Windnagle - All Instruments, Programming, Mixing

Joshua Payne - Solo on "Victory Is Mine"
Michael Goodrich - Mastering
Samuel Nelson - Album Cover
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Soulmass is a duo made up of Lux Edwards and Brett Windnagle, making death/doom about Soulsborne lore and other dark and fantastical settings.

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